Ginny Weasley

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Modèle:HP character Ginevra Molly "Ginny" Weasley is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling. Initially, Ginny's role is minor: she is identified solely as the younger sister of Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend. She does have a crush on Harry, and is uncharacteristically bashful in his presence. As the series progresses, Rowling greatly expands Ginny's role, developing her character and eventually including her as an active participant in Harry's adventures and the quest to defeat Lord Voldemort, and as Harry's principal love interest.

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Character background

Ginny is described in the series as being small in stature, having long red hairModèle:OP and bright brown eyes,Modèle:CS which, Harry notes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, are exactly the same colour as her mother'sModèle:DH. Later, she is described by several characters (including her brother Ron and the Slytherin Pansy Parkinson) as very pretty and too popular for her own good. Rowling has described her in interviews as "a fairly forceful personality"<ref>J. K. Rowling's World Book Day Chat, March 4, 2004</ref> who is "tough, not in an unpleasant way, but... gutsy". She also characterised Ginny as "funny" and "very warm and compassionate".<ref>MuggleNet/The Leaky Cauldron Interview, July 16, 2005</ref> As Ginny's character emerges, readers see evidence that she is extremely assertive and has a fierce temper and can be unkind when angered but also that she is thoughtful and comforting when her sympathies are aroused. She is also one of the few characters who can say Lord Voldemort's name without fear.Modèle:HBP

Ginny is the youngest of the seven Weasley children and the only daughter, "the first girl to be born into the Weasley clan for several generations".<ref>J.K. Rowling Official Site: Some Random Facts About The Weasley Family</ref> JK Rowling's official site states her birthday as 11 August, 1981.<ref>[1]</ref> The Weasley family is portrayed as financially struggling but pure-blood, meaning none of Ginny's ancestors were Muggles. Rowling establishes blood purity as a concept that some characters in Harry Potter value as being akin to nobility, but the Weasleys discount this notion, believing blood purity to be unimportant. This, along with their poverty, leads some other pure-blood families to disdain and even openly insult them.Modèle:CS

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Appearances

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First two books

Ginny is introduced in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; the first girl of around Harry's age to be seen in the series. She makes only two appearances in Philosopher's Stone when Harry and four of her brothers leave for Hogwarts. Though too young to enrol, she begs her mother to let her go to the school.Modèle:PS. At the end of the book, she is excited to catch a glimpse of Harry when he returns.Modèle:PS

Ginny becomes more important in the series in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when she is a first-year Hogwarts student. She joins the Gryffindor House a year below Harry and Ron. While she appears to play a mostly behind-the-scenes role in the book, looking mysteriously ill and providing light humour with her obvious crush on HarryModèle:CS, Ginny is essential to the book's plotline: a series of unexplained attacks that leave several Muggle-born students petrified. Harry eventually discovers that a magical diary once belonging to Tom Riddle (the young Lord Voldemort) is possessing her as a means to access the Chamber of Secrets and unleash a Basilisk on the school.

It is later revealed that Lucius Malfoy was responsible for the diary's falling into Ginny's possession; he hoped that her actions would discredit her father and lead to Dumbledore's removal from Hogwarts.Modèle:CS A scene involving a fight between him and Arthur Weasley is revealed to have been staged by Malfoy for the purpose of planting the diary amongst Ginny's new school books.Modèle:CS After Ginny naively tells "Tom" (the memory residing inside the diary, in which she writes) about Harry's survival and Voldemort's destruction, Riddle brings her to the Chamber of Secrets, intending to restore himself to full life by killing her.Modèle:CS Harry, however, discovers the entrance to the Chamber, and with help from Fawkes and the Sorting Hat destroys both the Basilisk and Riddle's diary, thus saving Ginny's life.Modèle:CS

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Third to fifth books

Ginny has little involvement in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; she directly interacts with Harry only three times in the two books. In The Goblet of Fire, Ginny honours a promise to attend the Yule Ball with Neville Longbottom, despite Ron's telling her to go with Harry.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ginny becomes a more important character. By the opening of the book, she has "given up on Harry months ago"Modèle:OP, and Harry and Ron learn that she met her current boyfriend, Michael, while accompanying Neville to the Yule Ball. By then, Hermione is aware that Ginny has a boyfriend, but Ginny has not told her protective brothers because she knows that they will "take it badly." Despite these romantic conflicts and concerns, Ginny is one of the few characters that can address Harry calmly during his worst moods.

Ginny displays a talent for Quidditch not formerly known to the reader or to the rest of the Weasley family. Hermione reveals that since her brothers wouldn't let her play Quidditch with them, Ginny had been breaking into the broom shed and practising secretly since the age of six, much to Fred and George's surprise.Modèle:OP When Dolores Umbridge punishes Harry with a "lifetime" Quidditch ban, Ginny replaces him as Gryffindor's Seeker. Though everyone agrees that she is not as talented a Seeker as Harry, she proves a good replacement as she catches the Snitch in two important games.Modèle:OP Modèle:OP She also joins Dumbledore's Army. While in Dumbledore's Army, she displays that she is a very powerful and talented witch; For example, in the movie adaptation her power is first shown in the Room of Requirement, where she destroys a mechanical Death Eater with the Reductor Curse, and later in the Department of Mysteries, where she almost obliterates a real Death Eater by using the same spell; we also see that her Patronus is a horse. Both these events are examples of Rowling's subtle parallel contrasting Ginny with Cho Chang throughout book five (as displayed on her chapter-plan for the book on her website), in order to establish which girl is a better match for Harry.

Ginny is one of the five members of Dumbledore's Army who join Harry's attempt to rescue Sirius Black from the Department of Mysteries Modèle:OP. During the fight, a Death Eater breaks her ankle and she is knocked out, but she is restored to full health by Madam Pomfrey, back at Hogwarts.Modèle:OP Ginny breaks up with Michael when she finds him to be "sulky" over the Ravenclaw Quidditch team suffering a loss to Gryffindor, and soon starts dating Dean Thomas.

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Sixth book

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ginny's stage presence dramatically increases as she becomes a fulltime Quidditch player, popular student, romantic love interest, and secondary heroine in the attempt to defend Hogwarts from the Death Eaters.

Early in the book, readers learn that Ginny has indeed become "too popular for her own good",Modèle:HBP Professor Horace Slughorn respects her magical abilities enough after seeing her cast the Bat-Bogey Hex on Zacharias Smith Modèle:HBP to invite her to join his "Slug Club", an exclusive group of students hand-picked by Professor Slughorn as promising young achievers or students from influential families. Ginny spends more time with Harry when she becomes a Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team,Modèle:HBP and substitutes for Harry as Seeker when Snape puts him in detention during the Quidditch Final.Modèle:HBP

After witnessing Ginny and Dean kissing fiercely in a private hallway, Harry, in a sudden surge of jealousy, feels the urge to jinx him.Modèle:HBP He tries to chalk up his emotions as equal to Ron's; she's "like a sister to him".Modèle:HBP However, after nights of dreams with her in them and fantasizing about kissing her, Harry soon comes to terms with the fact that he has fallen for Ginny, but since Ron has voiced his frustrations over Dean dating his sister, Harry interprets this as Ron not wanting any of his friends to date her. Ron claims he does not like his sister being the subject of school gossip. Their fighting leads to a shouting match and cold relations with his sister until Ron is poisoned, after which all is forgiven.

Independent and sassy, Ginny hates Dean to hover over her (such as walking behind her and leading her into rooms), and the relationship turns sour after Christmas. They finally break up in April, with a helpful "nudge" from Harry under the effects of Felix Felicis, a potion which brings the drinker luck.Modèle:HBP Though worried about Ron's reaction, Harry now takes advantage of any chance to spend more time with her away from the prying eyes of their classmates.Modèle:HBP After Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup against Ravenclaw, Ginny trumps Cho in the final as Harry serves a detention with Professor Snape. When Harry returns to the common room, Ginny rushes to him and he spontaneously kisses her during the euphoric post-match party, surprising his classmates.

Ginny, along with the other four members of the DA who went to the Ministry with Harry the preceding year, tries to protect the school when Harry and Dumbledore are away. They, along with several members of the Order of the Phoenix end up fighting the Death Eaters that have entered the school aided by Draco Malfoy. Ginny escapes without injury.Modèle:HBP After Dumbledore's death, Harry decides to end their relationship as he fears his feelings for Ginny would place her in danger. Harry is surprised at how well Ginny handles his decision after she asks him, "This is for some stupid, noble reason, isn't it?"Modèle:HBP

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Final book

Ginny is first seen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after Harry is brought to the Weasley home before his birthday; Harry fights an impulse to hold herModèle:DH. For his seventeenth birthday, propelled by the revelation that Harry, Ron, and Hermione are leaving to seek the remaining Horcruxes, Ginny asks Harry to come into her bedroom and passionately kisses him until Ron walks in on the moment. He tells Harry that Ginny was "cut up" when he ended their relationship and asks him to promise not to "go snogging her again," as she will "get her hopes up," Harry, remembering the reasons why he broke up with Ginny, agrees.

For much of the remainder of the novel, Ginny's experiences are revealed only indirectly; she is at Hogwarts while the three lead characters are not, and the reader only learns of her activities as the central characters hear news of what is happening at the school. Ginny, Neville and Luna continue as leaders of the students' resistance Dumbledore's Army. Through the portrait of Phineas Nigellus, they learn that she is leading a student mutiny and has been banned from Hogsmeade trips. Ginny participates in a plot to steal the fake sword of Gryffindor from Snape, who she thinks is working for Voldemort.Modèle:DH While on Easter Holiday, she goes into hiding with her family and does not return for the spring term.

Despite Harry's efforts to keep Ginny out of danger, she returns to participate in the Battle of Hogwarts. Modèle:DH Mrs Weasley struggles with Ginny, who is still underage, to keep her out of the battle while Ginny protests. Remus Lupin suggests that Ginny stay hidden in the room, close to battle but out of the way of harm. Ginny dislikes this but agrees.Modèle:DH Later, when Harry needs to change the setting of the Room of Requirement to secure a Horcrux, Ginny looks delighted to leave the room and joins in the fighting.Modèle:DH She does not return and is seen, alongside Tonks, firing off well-aimed jinxes at a crowd of Death Eaters.Modèle:DH Kissing Ginny is the last memory Harry thinks of as he waits for Voldemort to kill him.Modèle:DH When the battle resumes after Harry's supposed death, Ginny, Hermione and Luna take on Bellatrix Lestrange. When Ginny narrowly avoids a Killing Curse Modèle:DH, Harry's attention turns to her. He decides to change his course to run over and take on Bellatrix, but Molly Weasley beats him to the fight and defeats Bellatrix.Modèle:DH When the battle ends and Voldemort is defeated, Harry sees Ginny with her mother and decides to not interrupt, thinking that "there would be time to talk later, hours and days and maybe years".Modèle:DH

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Epilogue

In the epilogue, set 19 years after the events of The Deathly Hallows, Harry and Ginny are married and have three children: sons James and Albus Severus, and daughter Lily. Rowling has extrapolated on Ginny's future, saying that after leaving Hogwarts, Ginny joins the Holyhead Harpies and, after spending a few years as a celebrated player, retires from the team and becomes Senior Quidditch correspondent at the Daily Prophet.<ref>http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/content.asp?sec=3&sec2=1</ref>

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Role in the films

Ginny has appeared in all five film adaptations of the Harry Potter series, played by Bonnie Wright. It is confirmed that Wright will play the part of Ginny in the sixth film.

After sporadic appearances in the first three films, Ginny becomes more visible in the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She still has only a handful of lines, but she is a frequent presence in the background through most of the film. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix she displays much of the power evident in the fifth and sixth books. However, her character development has been omitted and despite her display of magical ability and increased presence in the background, she has a sparse seven lines throughout the entire film. The film also hints that Ginny still has a crush on Harry when she looks rather jealous at the sight of Harry with Cho. However, the entire subplot of her dating Michael Corner found in the book is omitted from the adaptation, as is Corner's character entirely. All this combined could have a negative effect on the sixth movie, as her character development in that film would have to be much more hurried. After all, she does play a large part in the sixth book.

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